Brandy Says She Has 'Dehydration and Low Amounts of Nutrition' After Hospitalization Report

Mar. 15, 2025

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Brandyhas shared a health update with fans, shortly after aTMZ reportclaimed she’d been hospitalized following a possible seizure.

The Grammy Award-winning singer, 43, did not confirm reports of her hospitalization but said on her Instagram Story Wednesday that she is recovering from dehydration and low nutrition.

“To my beloved fam, friends, and starz, thank you for sending love and light my way. I am following doctors' orders and getting the rest I need due to dehydration and low amounts of nutrition,” she wrote. “Thank you for your prayers and support. Grateful for you all, see you soon.”

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Brandy Norwood’s statement on her hospitalization

Brandymade a surprise appearancein June at the 2022 BET Awards, where shejoined Jack Harlowon stage for a remix of his chart-topping hit “First Class.”

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The unlikely collaboration came about after Harlow appeared on the radio station Hot 97, andlearned live on airthat Brandy and Ray J were siblings.

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“Brandy and Ray J are siblings? Nobody’s ever told me that in my life. Nobody’s ever told me that,” Harlow told hosts Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez and Peter Rosenberg. “Y’all got a good clip off that one. Ray J and Brandy are siblings? I had no idea, bruh.”

Brandy herselfrespondedafter aclip of the interview went viral, and wrote that she “will murk this dude in rap at 43 on his own beats and then sing [his] ass to sleep.”

“See, I can have a little fun too,” she wrote in a follow-up tweet. “hehe…all love.”

She later appeared on the same radio showto premiere a freestyle trackin which she rapped lyrics over the beat of Harlow’s hit “First Class.”

In August, she appeared alongside herCinderellaco-starsBernadette Peters,Whoopi Goldberg, Paolo Montalbán,Victor Garber,Jason Alexanderand Veanne Cox in a20/20specialthat celebrated the 25th anniversary of the 1997 ABC movie.

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Jack Harlow and Brandy perform onstage during the 2022 BET Awards at Microsoft Theater on June 26, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.

“It’s enchanting, it’s magical, it is an amazing cast — people that [viewers] probably know, and the music will change your life,“Brandy told PEOPLE in 2021ofCinderella. “And I feel like everybody that sees it will come away inspired, will come away happy and joyful. And I just hope that for everyone, because right now we need it more.”

In the groundbreaking musical, which originally drew 60 million viewers, the singer and actress made history as the first Black woman to play the character on the screen in a production that employed colorblind casting years beforeHamiltonfollowed suit on Broadway.

Brandy embraced her Disney roots further in August when she performed “Starting Now” at Disneyland toofficially kick off Disney’s World Princess Week.

source: people.com